Challenges 2010

Current Challenges

Orbis Terrarum Challenge (November 2010)
Rules ** Introduction Post

  1. Dreams of Trespass – Fatima Mernissi
  2. Things I’ve Been Silent About – Azar Nafisi
  3. The Icarus Girl – Helen Oyeyemi
  4. A Personal Matter – Kenzaburo Oe
  5. Beside the Sea – Véronique Olmi
  6. Palace Walk – Naguib Mahfouz
  7. [yet to read]
  8. [yet to read]

1% Well-Read Challenge III (30 April 2011)
Rules ** Introduction Post

  1. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
  2. Candide – Voltaire
  3. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
  4. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
  5. Animal Farm – George Orwell
  6. [yet to read]
  7. [yet to read]
  8. [yet to read]
  9. [yet to read]
  10. [yet to read]
  11. [yet to read]
  12. [yet to read]
  13. [yet to read]

Daphne du Maurier Challenge (May 13, 2010- April 19, 2011)
Rules

  1. [yet to read]
  2. [yet to read]
  3. [yet to read]

Jane Austen Challenge (31 December 2010)
Rules ** Introduction Post

Books by Jane Austen:

  1. Sanditon
  2. [yet to read]
  3. [yet to read]
  4. [yet to read]

Re-writes, Prequels, Sequels, etc:

  1. Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters – Ben H. Winters
  2. Vampire Darcy’s Desire – Regina Jeffers
  3. Me and Mr. Darcy – Alexandra Potter
  4. Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict – Laurie Viera Rigler

Typically British Challenge (31 December 2010)
Rules ** Introduction Post


  1. Sanditon – Jane Austen
  2. Solar – Ian McEwan
  3. The Wise Virgins – Leonard Woolf
  4. Ballet Shoes – Noel Streatfeild
  5. [yet to read]
  6. [yet to read]

Finished and Abandoned Challenges

Women Unbound Challenge (Finished)
Rules ** Introduction Post


  1. Desert Flower – Waris Dirie
  2. Theorizing Gender – Rachel Alsop, Annette Fitzsimons and Kathleen Lennon
  3. Gender and the Politics of History – Joan Wallach Scott
  4. Dreams of Trespass – Fatima Mernissi
  5. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
  6. Things I’ve Been Silent About – Azar Nafisi
  7. Journey From The Land Of No – Roya Hakakian
  8. Under Western Eyes – Chandra Talpade Mohanty

The 1930′s mini-challenge (Finished)
Rules

  1. Ballet Shoes – Noel Streatfeild

Japanese Literature Challenge (Finished)
Rules

  1. A Personal Matter – Kenzaburo Oe

China Challenge (Abandoned)
Rules ** Introduction Post

  1. Red Dust – Ma Jian
  2. Miss Chopsticks – Xinran

World Religion Challenge (Abandoned)
Rules ** Introduction Post

  1. Making Saints. Inside the Vatican: Who Become Saints, Who Do Not, And Why… – Kenneth L. Woodward

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